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Southern Spaces
A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

At Liberty (1964)

...ever again.   Published in A Murmuration of Starlings (2008). Text may vary slightly from the video reading. Published: 1 April 2008 © 2008 Jake Adam York and Southern Spaces...

Darkly

...first appeared in The Southern Review and will appear in Persons Unknown (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010, forthcoming). Published: 15 April 2010 © 2010 Jake Adam York and Southern Spaces...

From A Field Guide to Etowah County

...written in your skin.   Published in Murder Ballads (2005). Text may vary slightly from the video reading. Published: 1 April 2008 © 2008 Jake Adam York and Southern Spaces...

Anniversary

...us a wake returning to comfort the water and then the shore. "Anniversary" has not been published before. Published: 15 April 2010 © 2010 Jake Adam York and Southern Spaces...

Substantiation

...they fly.   Published in A Murmuration of Starlings (2008). Text may vary slightly from the video reading. Published: 1 April 2008 © 2008 Jake Adam York and Southern Spaces...

At Liberty (1961)

...that slowly fills with flies.   Published in A Murmuration of Starlings (2008). Text may vary slightly from the video reading. Published: 1 April 2008 © 2008 Jake Adam York...

Putting up Beans

...burners gassed up blue, I filled four steel washtubs with seventy pint jars each-- forty if they were quart sized Masons. The barn itself layered in rafters for hanging sticks...

Ars Poetica #100: I Believe

...is the human voice, and are we not of interest to each other?   Published in American Sublime (Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2005). Published: 10 December 2009 © 2009 Elizabeth Alexander...

Birmingham, Alabama images

...1963-- shortly before morning services were to begin--the Ku Klux Klan bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, killing four African American girls. Published: 28 February 2007 © 2007 David Wharton...